The History of Greece, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The History of Greece, Vol. 4 The struggle between the two leading states of Greece was at an end. This was not the result of mutual exhaustion, nor of a treaty defining anew the limits of dominion on either side, but of complete victory on the one, and absolute submission on the other. A victory more brilliant than the expectations of the most ambitious Spartan had been able to imagine during the long series of years of war had been gained suddenly, without danger or difficulty, without sacrifice of money or effusion of citizens' blood, it had fallen like a ripe fruit into the laps of the conquerors. Theirs was the gain of the whole of this unmeasurable success, although it was foreign money which had enabled them to assemble their naval force, their own resources were unimpaired, and the means of support upon which the enemy had so long relied for resisting them were now at their disposal. Sparta was now the single state powerful by land or sea, she was on terms of intimate friendship with the Persians, who attached to their auxiliary services no conditions in any wise oppressive to her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.